Comparison

Spectty vs Text Editor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Spectty

A native terminal client for iOS devices, offering secure connections to servers via SSH and Mosh. Features session persistence, automatic reconnection, and local storage of credentials for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • SSH and Mosh support
  • Metal-accelerated renderer
  • Session persistence
  • Automatic reconnection
  • Local password and key storage
  • Multiple built-in themes
Features
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A fast, native terminal client for iPhone and iPad. Connect to your machines over SSH or Mosh with a Metal-accelerated renderer, session persistence, and automatic reconnection. - Native Mosh support — switch networks without dropping your session - 8 built-in themes including Catppuccin, Tokyo Night, Dracula, and Gruvbox - Passwords and keys stored locally in the iOS Keychain - No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Your connections are yours.

About

Text Editor

A professional code and text editor for developers, students, and creators. It offers fast performance, extensive language support, and advanced editing features for a smooth and reliable coding experience on Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Professional code and text editing
  • Fast and lightweight performance
  • Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting
  • Smart autocomplete and code suggestions
  • Built-in snippets for popular languages
  • Format code with Prettier
  • 30+ professionally designed themes
Features
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Text Editor is a fast, modern, and powerful code editor built for developers, students, and creators who want a professional coding experience on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Write, edit, and manage code with support for many popular programming, scripting, and markup languages all in one lightweight and easy-to-use editor. Whether you are building websites, editing configuration files, writing scripts, learning programming, or taking technical notes, Text Editor provides a smooth and reliable workspace designed for productivity. Supported Languages: Swift, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Perl, Bash, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JSON, JSON5, YAML, TOML, Markdown, Astro, Regex, Elixir, Haskell, Plain Text, and many more. Features: - Professional code and text editing - Fast and lightweight performance - Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting - Smart autocomplete and code suggestions - Built-in snippets for popular languages - Context-aware suggestions with fuzzy matching - Auto-close brackets, quotes, and tags - Find and replace - Go to line - Undo and redo support - Duplicate and move lines quickly - Advanced keyboard editing controls - Format code with Prettier - Support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and PHP formatting - Adjustable tab width, line length, quote style, trailing commas, prose wrap, and more - Beautiful built-in light and dark themes - 30+ professionally designed themes included - Popular themes inspired by One Dark Pro, Dracula, Monokai, Solarized, Nord, GitHub Dark, Tokyo Night, Material, Paper, and more - Import and export custom themes - App-wide adaptive color scheme - Fully customizable keyboard accessory bar - Quick access coding symbols and actions - Powerful editing actions including indent, outdent, duplicate lines, move lines, and cursor navigation - Searchable advanced font picker with support for custom fonts - Adjustable font size, line height, and letter spacing - Multiple text encodings with automatic detection - Choose between UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more encodings - Line ending detection and preservation (LF and CRLF) - Enable or disable auto-correction - Enable or disable auto-capitalization - Enable or disable spell-checking - Hardware keyboard shortcuts for save, find, format, comments, and navigation - Auto-save and unsaved changes protection - Native Files app integration - Open, edit, and share files easily - Share Sheet support - Print documents directly from the app - Optimized for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro Built for Productivity: Text Editor is designed to help you stay focused with a clean interface, responsive performance, and powerful developer tools that make coding easier anywhere. Perfect for web development, mobile app development, backend scripting, configuration editing, Markdown writing, learning programming, technical notes, and everyday text editing. Simple enough for beginners. Powerful enough for professional developers.

Screenshots

Spectty4 screens
Text Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spectty at 50% against Text Editor's 0%. Spectty also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Text Editor's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text Editor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Editor has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Spectty's written reviews are positive against 0% of Text Editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spectty ships an update weekly, Text Editor monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spectty versus Text Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpecttyText Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings221 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB53 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperOcean CheungDevashy Rangpariya

Customer experience

Spectty

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Text Editor

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Spectty

No in-app purchases

None

Text Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spectty free?
Spectty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Editor free?
Text Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spectty or Text Editor?
Text Editor is rated higher. Spectty averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Text Editor averages 5.0 from 21 ratings.
Do Spectty or Text Editor have ads?
Neither Spectty nor Text Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spectty or Text Editor?
Spectty ships an update weekly, and Text Editor monthly. Most recently, Spectty was updated on October 24, 2026 and Text Editor on October 25, 2026.

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